diff --git a/packages/mermaid/src/diagrams/flowchart/flowDb.js b/packages/mermaid/src/diagrams/flowchart/flowDb.js
index 8d17a30c0..33ae68a86 100644
--- a/packages/mermaid/src/diagrams/flowchart/flowDb.js
+++ b/packages/mermaid/src/diagrams/flowchart/flowDb.js
@@ -150,6 +150,7 @@ export const addSingleLink = function (_start, _end, type) {
   if (linkTextObj !== undefined) {
     edge.text = sanitizeText(linkTextObj.text.trim());
 
+    edge.text = edge.text.replaceAll('\\"', '"');
     // strip quotes if string starts and ends with a quote
     if (edge.text[0] === '"' && edge.text[edge.text.length - 1] === '"') {
       edge.text = edge.text.substring(1, edge.text.length - 1);
diff --git a/packages/mermaid/src/diagrams/flowchart/parser/flow-md-string.spec.js b/packages/mermaid/src/diagrams/flowchart/parser/flow-md-string.spec.js
index 9560a33df..13cb262e3 100644
--- a/packages/mermaid/src/diagrams/flowchart/parser/flow-md-string.spec.js
+++ b/packages/mermaid/src/diagrams/flowchart/parser/flow-md-string.spec.js
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ A["\`The cat in **the** hat\`"]-- "\`The *bat* in the chat\`" -->B["The dog in t
     expect(edges[1].end).toBe('C');
     expect(edges[1].type).toBe('arrow_point');
     expect(edges[1].text).toBe('The rat in the mat');
-    expect(edges[1].labelType).toBe('text');
+    expect(edges[1].labelType).toBe('string');
   });
   it('mardown formatting in subgraphs', function () {
     const res = flow.parser.parse(`flowchart LR
diff --git a/packages/mermaid/src/diagrams/flowchart/parser/flow.jison b/packages/mermaid/src/diagrams/flowchart/parser/flow.jison
index 6bc434c3c..e8f0775b8 100644
--- a/packages/mermaid/src/diagrams/flowchart/parser/flow.jison
+++ b/packages/mermaid/src/diagrams/flowchart/parser/flow.jison
@@ -462,6 +462,8 @@ edgeText: edgeTextToken
     {$$={text:$edgeTextToken, type:'text'};}
     | edgeText edgeTextToken
     {$$={text:$edgeText.text+''+$edgeTextToken, type:$edgeText.type};}
+    |STR
+    {$$={text: $STR, type: 'string'};}
     | MD_STR
     {$$={text:$MD_STR, type:'markdown'};}
     ;
@@ -573,7 +575,7 @@ textToken      :   TEXT | TAGSTART | TAGEND | UNICODE_TEXT;
 
 textNoTagsToken: NUM | NODE_STRING | SPACE | MINUS | keywords |  START_LINK ;
 
-edgeTextToken  :  STR | EDGE_TEXT | UNICODE_TEXT ;
+edgeTextToken  :  EDGE_TEXT | UNICODE_TEXT ;
 
 alphaNumToken   :  NUM | UNICODE_TEXT | NODE_STRING | DIR | DOWN | MINUS | COMMA;